Anyone who has played both, which do you prefer?
Personally I prefer Forza, for a number of reasons:
1) The cars don't handle like boats, they handle like cars (SHOCK!)
2) The triggers make it much easier to control braking and acceleration.
3) Damage.
4) Online play.
5) Supercars - Ferraris, Lambos, which aren't in GT.
6) I can choose my own music - bonus.
Who agrees, disagrees?
"Let's get down to brass tacks here - how much for the ape?"
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I have played all GT games (except the "new" GTHD, since I don't feel the PS3 is worth its price).
I also have an XBOX with Forza and recently I got myself an XBOX 360 with Forza 2 included.
I've been playing racing games for longer than I care to remember, LOL.
Personally, I feel both franchises offer some terrific gameplay. They just do it differently, that's all.
On to your points:
1) The handling of the cars has IMHO always been a bit too loose in GT, and a bit too tight in Forza. In GT it's just so much fun to throw a car into a turn and actually *feel* the grip (and the loss of it). Forza somehow seems to get the grip back a little too early. Cars don't turn *that* sharply in real life.
In the short time I've been playing Forza 2, I feel this one has reached a very good balance between the two (and I'm loving it).
2) Half agreed. I've always used the right analog stick for braking and acceleration in GT. But you're right about the pressure sensitive buttons not being as good as the triggers on the XBOX controller.
Neither comes close to a steering wheel though
3) Agreed. Polyphony Digital buckled under the pressure of the car manufacturers not to show their cars in a damaged state. A shame, really. I mean, cars aren't indestructible in real life, so why should they be in a game?
4) Agreed. I don't really care much for online play myself, but Forza is definitely the better game in that department.
5) Agreed. I don't know if it was too expensive to include them in GT or something, but seeing how well the games have sold over the years there should have been at least some of those cars in the sequels (GT3 especially).
That said, GT is and always has been a very japanese game. Those cars are represented in the extreme, for example; many different R34 skylines with no differences other than their looks (m-spec, v-spec, nur, etc, they all drive the same). This also means there's a heavy focus on drifting, which is why the handling is the way it is.
6) Disagreed. You can't really blame a game for the shortcomings of the console it's played on. The Playstation consoles never had a hard drive, so any alternative audio would mean a lot of swapping between the game disc and audio CD's.
I used to just play my own music on my stereo and turn off the in-game music.
Forza is better than Gran Turismo in every single way. Even the PGR series is better than GT.
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